The Minister for International Affairs and Regional In-tegration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, final Tuesday, formally inaugurated the Premium Appli-cation Centre (PAC) in London.
The PAC in London is the primary of its form within the diaspora and is the end result of efforts by Ghana to ship premium passport and visa software companies to residents following a profitable 4 years pilot in Ghana.
PAC is a premium service to enrich the present consular companies supplied by the Ghana Mission in London.
An announcement issued by PAC in Accra yesterday and copied to the Ghanaian Instances, mentioned the Minister for International Affairs and Regional Integration, Ms Botchwey, who opened the Centre, acknowledged the significance of the centre and reiterated the resolve of the min-istry to additional enhance its service supply.
Ms Botchwey mentioned, “… This milestone occasion marks one other achievement within the determina-tion of the Ministry of International Affairs and Regional Integration to supply high quality service supply at dwelling and its missions overseas. The opening of this PAC, the primary to have been established, is a sworn statement to the progress we now have made in recent times. Each applicant can count on expedited frontline consular companies for passport, visa, and journey certifi-cate functions.”
The minister emphasised that the ultimate dedication of functions could be carried out by the consular part of the Ghana Excessive Fee – so that is for frontline companies solely.
“I, subsequently, name on Gha-naians and the general public to reap the benefits of this PAC. Because the Ministry opens such amenities in a number of Ghanaian missions within the coming years, we are going to draw classes from the successes and shortcom-ings of the London PAC – I hope extra successes than shortcom-ings,” she mentioned.
The minister mentioned the centre fashioned a part of the long-term ob-jectives of the Ghanaian govern-ment to enhance consular companies each at dwelling and overseas.
“The opening of this brand-new PAC is to present residents of Ghana and guests to Ghana, in the UK, conve-nient entry to an environment friendly and complete course of for sooner passport and visa software and acquisition multi function place,” Ms Botchwey, mentioned.
The Chief Government Officer (CEO) of Entry Group, Nidal Kamouni, mentioned “We’re a Gha-naian firm with interna-tional attain serving respected governments and are delighted to be working with the govern-ment of Ghana to deal with and handle what we name the front-end component of service supply, which is principally guaranteeing that every one residents and guests to Ghana have the most effective expertise in relation to making use of for his or her passports and visas, offload-ing among the volumes and cargo off the Excessive Fee. This collaboration will allow us to assist all candidates in a well timed method, offering sooner processing service which permits the diplomatic missions to give attention to the decision-making a part of issuance.”
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Ghana’s Excessive Commissioner to UK and Eire, Papa Ow-usu-Ankomah, in his remarks referred to as on all Ghanaians within the UK to make use of the companies of PAC.
He mentioned the institution of PAC got here as a aid to the mis-sion because it supplied an alternate for anybody wanting to use for visas and passports.
“I hope that we’ll cooperate in order that this turns into a hit and demonstrates the best way Ghana is enhancing its consular companies globally,” Mr Owu-su-Ankomah, mentioned.
